Principal Investigator(s):
United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census

Summary:

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) contain person- and
household-level information from the "long-form" questionnaires
distributed to a sample of the population enumerated in the 1980
Census. The A Sample identifies every state, county groups, and most
individual counties with 100,000 or more inhabitants (350 in all). In
many cases, individual cities or groups of places with 100,000 or more
inhabitants are also identified. As a percentage of the 5-Percent
Public Use Microdata Sample (A Sample) [CENSUS OF POPULATION AND
HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE (A SAMPLE):
5-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 8101)], this file constitutes a 1-in-1000
sample, and contains all household- and person-level variables from the
original A Sample. Household-level variables include housing tenure,
year structure was built, number and types of rooms in dwelling,
plumbing facilities, heating equipment, taxes and mortgage costs,
number of children, and household and family income. Person-level
variables include sex, age, marital status, race, Spanish origin,
income, occupation, transportation to work, and education.

The Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS) contain person- and
household-level information from the "long-form" questionnaires
distributed to a sample of the population enumerated in the 1980
Census. The A Sample identifies every state, county groups, and most
individual counties with 100,000 or more inhabitants (350 in all). In
many cases, individual cities or groups of places with 100,000 or more
inhabitants are also identified. As a percentage of the 5-Percent
Public Use Microdata Sample (A Sample) [CENSUS OF POPULATION AND
HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE (A SAMPLE):
5-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 8101)], this file constitutes a 1-in-1000
sample, and contains all household- and person-level variables from the
original A Sample. Household-level variables include housing tenure,
year structure was built, number and types of rooms in dwelling,
plumbing facilities, heating equipment, taxes and mortgage costs,
number of children, and household and family income. Person-level
variables include sex, age, marital status, race, Spanish origin,
income, occupation, transportation to work, and education.

Study Description

Citation

U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. CENSUS OF POPULATION AND HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE (A SAMPLE): 1/1000 SAMPLE. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 198?. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1994. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08210.v1

The household and person records in the data file have
a record length of 193 characters and contain a combined total of
320,881 records.

Methodology

Sample:
This sample, extracted from CENSUS OF POPULATION AND
HOUSING, 1980 [UNITED STATES]: PUBLIC USE MICRODATA SAMPLE (A SAMPLE):
5-PERCENT SAMPLE (ICPSR 8101) using a systematic selection procedure,
comprises 0.1 percent of all households enumerated in the Census. The A
Sample is a stratified sample of households that received the long-form
questionnaire.